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Utah Highway 313, leading into Canyonlands NP
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This roadside wall seemed to be gritting its teeth
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But if I was under that much solid rock, I'd be gritting my teeth too
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Interesting rock formations off in the distance
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Blue pools, each one over two miles wide. (No, just kidding.)
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Blue skies, and bright late afternoon dazzle as I return to this part of Canyonlands for the first time since Roadrage2000.
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A wing of the large mesa that is Island in the Sky
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And another, on the edge of Shafer Canyon
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A preview of Shafer Canyon, enough to make me turn back and take that intriguing dirt road
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The road runs along the edge of a very tall acclivity. Can you spot the mkinivan in this picture? Looks damn small, duddinit?
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Whoa.... Shafer Canyon itself begins to revel itself
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The walls of Shafer Canyon
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The road along the bottom. Had there been more time before sunset.... Oh well, Next Time.
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The southern wall of the canyon
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The fine line along the top of that sheer drop, that's the road I just used to get here. Pretty amazing stuff.
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A longre view of Shafer Canyon, looking very goooood
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And another. It was one wowing place
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The swirls in the steep cayon wall belie the area's past as an ancient inland sea
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The road and the wall again
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A zoom-in on Shafer Canyon
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The Green Hornet!
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Looking at the Green River Overlook
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The wide valley of the Green River
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Zoomed in on the Green River itself
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More Green River views
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Distant shapes
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The Green River valley again
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Green River Overlook
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Green River Overlook
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Green River Overlook, zoomed
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Green River Overlook, zoomed again
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Buck Canyon
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Grand Point Overlook. When I was here in 2000, I sat under gray skies and watched a fercious lightning storm march across the plain and over me
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Grand Point Overlook
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Grand Point Overlook, cool canyon
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Grand Point Overlook, looking eastsoutheast
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Grand Point Overlook, looking southeast
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Grand Point Overlook, looking south
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Those distant shapes again
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Grand Point Overlook, fins
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Grand Point Overlook, canyons
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Grand Point Overlook, canyon zoomed
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Grand Point Overlook, spire
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Grand Point Overlook, canyon wall, zoomed
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Teeth, in sunlight this time
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Good balance.
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UT-313, exiting Canyonlands NP and heading for Moab....
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